Respected Inuit climate leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Siila (Sheila) Watt-Cloutier has been named the inaugural Indigenous Climate Fellow at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss World Oceans Day, marked on June 8.
The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is hosting a film screening and conversation at the University of Victoria to showcase the importance of freshwater management and governance in celebration of World Water Day.
New research shows that humans "have emerged as the planet’s most extraordinary predator," harvesting over one third of all vertebrate species for medicine, collections, clothing and the pet trade.
Thanks to DNA analysis and more than a dozen difficult-to-source fecal samples, researchers are starting to understand what humpbacks eat in the deep waters of the Salish Sea.
What happens when Indigenous People lead resource decision-making on their own terms, across their own traditional territories? Communities in Tanzania and Canada are documenting and sharing their experiences, supported by a University of Victoria Department of Geography project that illustrates how partnerships can advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
UVic’s ocean women in social sciences are scientists and researchers who are making a difference with work that honours, values and promotes the benefits of collaboration and cooperation.
UVic researchers work with global partners to launch a website dedicated to providing free access to FishSounds. Understanding the sounds made by fish can help to determine the best approaches to address marine pollution and climate change ocean impacts.
Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of UVic, is expanding opportunities for women and girls in science with a new national project, the Ocean Decade Challenge.
UVic expands its breadth of expertise by actively recruiting new research chairs in the impact area of climate, environmental change and sustainability.
The emerging science of environmental DNA (eDNA) is transforming our ability to identify and quantify creatures passing through local habitats, says University of Victoria biochemist, Caren Helbing.
Fieldwork to monitor the health of BC’s vital kelp forests carried on this summer despite the global pandemic, thanks to a partnership between scientists and First Nations communities.
On World Oceans Day, two geography grad students prepare for an immersive two weeks of remote field work studying kelp forests on BC’s central coast. Adhering to strict COVID-19 protocols, Brian Timmer and Lianna Gendall will be self-isolating for 14 days before they embark on their MITACS internship with the Hakai Institute.
In one of the first studies to assess the direct impact of heat stress on reef fish, University of Victoria biologists assess the direct impact of heat stress on reef fish.
One researcher looks forward, the other back. But a commitment to justice unites two scholars being honoured for their respective efforts to strengthen Indigenous and Japanese Canadian communities in BC. Conservationist Chris Darimont and historian Jordan Stanger-Ross are the 2020 recipients of the Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship.
Environmental studies master’s graduate, Tracey Proverbs, credits her supervisor Trevor Lantz and the environmental studies program for the opportunities she experienced during her graduate degree.
